Ok, so which MNer gave birth in my campsite this morning? I have some questions....

[TorchlightMcKenzie]

like, how did you fill the birth pool?
How did you keep hot?
How did you empty it?
Did you also deliver the placenta in the bell tent?

And many MANY more!

And, can I meet you? Am also in bell tent with 7 week old!

oh I didn't know that Twizzy. I suppose it mitigates slightly. Even so - couldn't they have warned the campsite if he's actually working there? And if he doesn't work there I stand by my original view.

Well, he does voluntary work there twizzy. so not like their livelihood depends on it or anything.
I don't have an issue with it particularly, if they had sorted out a quiet place to camp with the organisers and the hot water supply. Otherwise, i still think its a bit entitled. Sorry.

Didn't actually mean to cross the voluntary bit out. As he is a volunteer.

They could have taken a break from juggling and fire eating and gone somewhere more private.

There's such a fantastic sitcom just begging to be made here.

When I started reading this thread I was convinced it was a wind up, especially the bit about there being a birth pool that was filled and heated by hoses to the showers and links to cigarette lighters in vans!!

In fact, it was only the link to the local paper that convinced me otherwise.

ah the newspaper seems to answer some of the noise questions...

"?Chris and Galadriel were concerned that the birth may disturb fellow campers.

But Chris said: ?They were fantastic. It was pretty clear what was happening and they just cheered Galadriel on and encouraged her with yells of ?go for it?. It was a lovely moment of true community spirit."

personally, i'd find that offputting, but whatever...

Edgar, I saw that but the OP was actually there, and said a fair few people were not happy about it.

Chris said: ?They were fantastic. It was pretty clear what was happening and they just cheered Galadriel on and encouraged her with yells of ?go for it?. It was a lovely moment of true community spirit."

If you say so, Chris!

:) df weirding out the straights .....

the very fact that people were bothered about noise at a festival is testament to the civilised nature of folk festivals.

i have only heard someone else in labour once, and it wasn't fun to listen to...

maybe she thought she could do it noiselessly this time ?

Now, a Scientologists camp would be no bother.

Self absorbed fucking hippies. Lovely "experience" for them no doubt, but what if something had gone horribly wrong? Would have been a bit of a git for the fellow campers had an ambulance had to come blaring in during the night.

And if he can afford to volunteer at all the festivals then he is either damned rich or living off other people.

Wonder who called the papers?

Starlight No one famous. He's in a bluesy/folk band called Missouri Gutts that played there for a few nights.

I went to the Cambridge Folk Festival once. They would not have approved of it there I can tell you. They had 'designated' barbeque areas with police tape round them to make sure you stayed within the boundary. All very po faced.

I wonder if they are in a staff camping area? Because I've volunteered at several muddy Glastonburys, and can safely say most of the staff would not have been terribly impressed if someone hogged the hot showers never mind bellowing half the night.

Cambridge folk very grown up.

went last year wearing a rainbow dress

i was conspicuous

BTW, I only volunteered because it meant we got free tickets and beer.

There's no staff area here. It's the kind of festival where the majority ARE staff anyway!

I can imagine Edgar I was 20 when I went and used to Reading where setting fire to your tent is almost obligatory, or twas in the 80's. Cambridge was a shock I can tell thee. Beardy folk with tankards attached to their utility belts clanking about all night.

Oh Reading...

Our tent sank at Reading. We went the year Nirvana played.

They are always called Galadriel, aren't they.....

I think I was there that year Five I went between 1987 and 1992. I think Nirvana played in about 1990? That year was certainly a mudbath year. New Model Army were there too

I should have known they live in Lewes, it's lentil-weaving central.
Bloody Lulus we used to call them.